Mitchell Hamline School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Mitchell Hamline

Mitchell Hamline received 1,603 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 824 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 51.4%. 363 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 44.1%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 364 students: 137 full time and 227 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 1,144.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 154, with a 25th percentile of 151 and a 75th of 158. That is 5 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 148 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 2.96 at the 25th percentile, 3.29 at the median and 3.60 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $55,300 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $1,000. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $16,848. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $73,148 for one year, or $219,444 across three, before any grant. 1,131 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 100% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $34,730. 51 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 269 of 379 passed, a rate of 70.98%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 81.61%, so the school ran 10.63 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 200 of 326 graduates (61.3%) held a job requiring bar admission. 5 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (1.5% of the class), of whom 2 went to firms of 501 or more. 2 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Minnesota with 136 graduates, followed by Wisconsin with 13.

Mitchell Hamline has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 2015. It is a private school based in St. Paul, MN. 5 first-year students left for academic reasons, 1.0% of the class. 7 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Minnesota has 3 ABA-approved law schools. The Minnesota guide compares them on LSAT median, cost and bar passage, and covers the state's admission rules.

Data: ABA Standard 509 Information Report (2025), published for consumer disclosure, retrieved from the ABA Required Disclosures portal on 2026-09-01. Bar passage and employment figures come from the same portal's Bar Passage Outcomes and Employment Summary reports for the class of 2024. Figures describe the 2025 to 2026 reporting cycle for Mitchell Hamline School of Law and are restated in our own structure; no ABA document or file is reproduced here. Verify anything decision-critical with the school.

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